Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been fulfilled among us,

so that you may know the certainty of the things which you have been taught.

Now when they had seen him, they made widely known the saying which had been told them concerning this child.

Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously."

And he said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.

And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

(And when they heard him, all the people, even the tax collectors, justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out,

he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others it is given in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

Those who had seen it told them how he who had been demon-possessed was healed.

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

But he who did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask the more.

And at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for all is now ready.'

And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.'

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have been serving you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will trust you with the true riches?

And if you have not been faithful in what is another's, who will give you what is your own?

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, be in authority over ten cities.'

For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!"

That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.

neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him;

a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.

And he released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.

Then he took it down and wrapped it in linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, where no one had ever yet been laid.